Premiere of “A Blessing”
Jennifer’s new play A Blessing has been selected for a workshop and production as part of Somerset Community College Theatre’s Short Play Festival performing March 28-30, 2024 in Somerset, KY.
New production of “Pre-War”
Jennifer’s award-winning play Pre-War will be presented in a live online production by PlayZoomers September 29 and 30, 2023. Tickets can be purchased here.
“Will, Kempe & Ed” play readings
Three new “Will, Kempe & Ed” plays“–Jennifer’s series of short comedies “about” Shakespeare and The Lord Chamberlain’s Men–will be presented by PlayZoomers July 16, 2023 at 7 PM ET. The performance is free and will be followed by a talkback.
“Happy” selected for Gi60 US
Jennifer’s Happy is one of 50 plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York July 6-9, 2023. Some shows will also be streamed. Tickets can be purchased here. (This will be Jennifer’s fifth play with Gi60 since 2019!)
“Sugar” a Stage It! winner
Jennifer’s play Sugar, a Winner of the Stage It! 2023 10-Minute Play Contest, is now published in Stage It! 7: Thirty 10-Minute Plays.
“Most Wonderful” in AL
Jennifer’s Most Wonderful (published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021) will be performed at Gadsden State Community College in AL on April 27, 2023.
“Fridge” in NJ
Jennifer’s Fridge (published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021) will have its fifteenth production as part of Fairleigh Dickinson University Players’ new play festival April 26-30, 2023 in Teaneck, NJ.
“Sugar” selected for BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS
Jennifer’s award-winning play Sugar will be published this fall in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2023, edited by Debbie Lamedman and forthcoming from Smith and Kraus.
“Sugar” a Gary Garrison Playwriting Award Finalist
Jennifer’s Sugar was named a Finalist for the 2023 Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for Ten-Minute Plays.
“Expectations” by PlayZoomers
Jennifer’s play Expectations will be produced live online by PlayZoomers February 10 and 11, 2023. Find ticket info here.
“Sugar” selected for New Deal’s 10×10
Sugar will have its third U.S. production as part of The New Deal Creative Arts Center’s 10 x 10 Fest running April 20-21, 2023 in Poughkeepsie, NY. The play premiered in Lakeshore Players 2022 10-Minute Play Festival and was also selected for Little Fish Theatre’s “Pick of the Vine” 2023.
still small voice an Incubator Finalist
Jennifer’s full-length play still small voice was named a Finalist for the 2023 Moxie Arts Incubator.
“Sugar” selected for PICK OF THE VINE 2023
Jennifer’s Sugar is one of seven plays selected for production in Little Fish Theatre’s 21st Annual PICK OF THE VINE Festival January 19-February 5, 2023 in San Pedro, CA.
“Chem Class” in Lanford Wilson Festival anthology
Jennifer’s Chem Class is now published The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays, edited by Kitt Lavoie and Kenneth L. Stilson (SEMO Press). The Lanford Wilson Festival honors new American plays that provide dynamic roles for college-age actors.
“Chem Class” at SEMO
Jennifer’s Chem Class, an Official Selection of The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022, has been selected for production by the Dobbins Conservatory at Southeast Missouri State University as part of The Lanford Wilson Short Plays performing October 27-29, 2022 in Cape Girardeau, MO.
FETILE GROUND a Panndora’s Box Semifinalist
Jennifer’s full-length play Fertile Ground has been named a Semifinalist for the 2022 Panndora’s Box New Works Festival.
The Covid Monologues Anthology
Jennifer’s In Memory of Maria Mercader is now published in The COVID Monologues: 54 Writers Respond to the Pandemic by Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble.
“Chem Class” Selected for Lights Up! Festival
A podcast of Jennifer’s play Chem Class has been released by City Lights Theatre Company’s 2022 Lights Up! Festival and can be heard here.
FERTILE GROUND a Princess Grace Award Semifinalist
Jennifer’s play Fertile Ground is a Semifinalist for the 2022 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists. It was also a Semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2022 National Playwrights Conference and Panndora’s Box New Works Festival 2022.
“Pre-War” by PlayZoomers
Jennifer’s award-winning play Pre-War will have a rehearsed reading by the online theater company PlayZoomers on July 18, 2022.
“We Were Happy” in IN
Jennifer’s play We Were Happy will receive its premiere production as part of American Lives Theatre’s Short & Stout Festival in Indianapolis October 13-16, 2022.
Two short plays in NJ
Jennifer’s plays Persephone (published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019) and A Split Second were selected and performed by students at Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, NJ, for their annual One-Act Play Festival running June 2-4, 2022.
“Invisible” selected for Gi60
Jennifer’s Invisible is one of fifty plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York City July 6-9, 2022. Jennifer’s Closet Cat was selected for Gi60 in 2021 and New Kitten and Out in 2019.
FERTILE GROUND a 2022 O’Neill Semifinalist
Jennifer’s new play Fertile Ground is a Semifinalist (out of 1200+ submissions) for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. (Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning play Charlotte’s Letters is a previous O’Neill Semifinalist.)
“Chem Class” selected for Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
Jennifer’s new play Chem Class has been selected (out of 800+ submissions) for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival “honoring new American plays that provide dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors.” The play will be performed at Southeast Missouri State University June 12, 2022, and will be published in The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays.
“The Great Gaffe” in OH
Jennifer’s play The Great Gaffe, published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, will have a production at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH, May 3, 2022.
“Fridge” at Emporia State University
Jennifer’s play Fridge has been selected by Emporia State University Theatre for its 2022 Festival of New Works in Emporia, KS, April 15, 2022.
“Sugar” selected by Lakeshore Players Theatre
Jennifer’s new play Sugar will premiere in Lakeshore Players 18th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival at Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake, MN, running June 2-12, 2022.
SLANTED LIGHT in Shortlist Sunday
Jennifer’s full-length play Slanted Light has been selected by The Bechdel Group for Shortlist Sunday on March 20, 2022. Jennifer’s play Ellery had a reading workshop with The Bechdel Group in 2019.
“Expectations” by Rainy Day Artistic Collective
Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected by Rainy Day Artistic Collective for digital production in its Halfway Histories festival March 18-19, 2022. Expectations was previously produced by Valley Players in Napa, CA, and Short+Sweet Sydney in Sydney Australia, and made the 2021 and 2022 Shortlists for Short+Sweet Dubai.
“Sugar” Selected for Rockford New Words 2022
Jennifer’s new play Sugar has been selected for Rockford New Words 2022 Words on Women performing at The West Side Show Room in Rockford, IL, February 4-5, 2022.
“Best Ten-Minute Plays” Publications
Jennifer’s plays Fridge and Most Wonderful are now published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Smith and Kraus; ed. Debbie Lamedman) and Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 (Applause Theater & Cinema Books; ed. Lawrence Harbison), respectively. Jennifer’s Persephone, First Day in Trade and The Great Gaffe were previously published in Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017 and Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, respectively.
CHARLOTTE’S LETTERS in Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022
A monologue from Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning play Charlotte’s Letters is in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022, edited by Debbie Lamedman and published by Smith and Kraus. Monologues from Jennifer’s plays Ellery and Quasars are in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017 and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2014, respectively.
“Listening” in NY
Jennifer’s play Listening has been selected by River’s Edge Theatre Company for its Short+ Sweet festival in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, April 30, 2022.
“The Great Gaffe” in Arkansas
Jennifer’s play The Great Gaffe, published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016, was produced as part of Ouachita Baptist University’s One-Act Play Festival in April 2021.
“Egypt” in Mind the Gap’s Housebound Series
Jennifer’s monologue Egypt was selected, performed and filmed by Nessa Amherst for Mind the Gap Theatre’s Housebound Series in August 2021.
“Theoni V. Aldredge” in New Rochelle, NY
Jennifer’s Theoni V. Aldredge, Costume Designer, Speaks is part of The Mother Lode: Celebrating Gems in Westchester History by Tutti Bravi Productions at the New Rochelle, NY, Public Library on November 21, 2021 at 3 PM.
Premiere of “On 9th Street”
Jennifer’s play On 9th Street will receive its premiere production by The New Deal Creative Arts Center in its 10×10 Festival in Poughkeepsie, NY, March 25-26, 2022.
Reading of “Walkies”
Caravan Productions U.K. will present a live online reading of Jennifer’s ten-minute play Walkies on December 14 at 2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. See Caravan Productions’ Facebook page for more info.
Production of “Most Wonderful”
Jennifer’s ten-minute play Most Wonderful, newly published by Applause Books in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, will be produced live online by PlayZoomers December 10 and 11, 2021.
Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive
Jennifer was selected for the Kennedy Center’s 2021 Autumn Playwriting Intensive. Led by award-winning playwright, screenwriter and educator Gary Garrison, the program consists of rigorous writing workshops and discussions of the art, craft, and business of playwriting with Gary and a wide range of distinguished guest artists.
“Waiting” selected by Weathervane Playhouse
Jennifer’s play Waiting premieres in Weathervane Playhouse’s 8×10 Theatrefest running January 13-23, 2022 in Akron, OH. Jennifer’s play Listening won an Audience-Choice Award in Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest.
“Expectations” in CA
Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected by Valley Players in Napa, CA, for production in “Ladies Briefs” running October 28-November 14, 2021. Read a review of the festival and Jennifer’s play here.
Premiere of “Closet Cat”
Closet Cat is one of fifty plays selected for Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival at The Tank in New York from October 21-23, 2021. Jennifer’s plays “New Kitten” and “Out” were produced in 2019 by Gi60 in the U.S. and U.K., respectively. “Closet Cat” can also be found in the current (2021) issue of some scripts literary magazine.
Premiere of “A Midsummer Night’s Script”
Jennifer’s play A Midsummer Night’s Script will premiere on September 10, 2021 in Funny Shorts Live! at Center for the Arts Moe Auditorium and Film Center in Bonita Springs, FL
“Persephone” in Georgia
Jennifer’s play Persephone was selected for Lionheart Theatre Company‘s “Bewitching” running October 21-24, 2021. The play has had productions across the U.S. and is published by Applause in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison.
“The Bookstore in Massachusetts
Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be produced by Summer School for the Performing Arts in Westford, MA on August 30, 2021.
“Closet Cat” in some scripts
Jennifer’s monologue “Closet Cat” is in the new issue of some scripts literary magazine.
Premiere of “Shelved”
Jennifer’s play Shelved will be produced by NextStage Theater in CO in Short Scripts for the Soul streaming July 23-24, 2021.
“The Bookstore” in Michigan
Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be produced by The Playhouse at White Lake in Whitehall, MI as part of Summer Shorts from August 26-29, 2021
“Fridge” in Arizona
Jennifer’s play Fridge is part of Northland Pioneer College’s 2021 Virtual Spring Theatre Festival, viewable here on YouTube through May 9, 2021.
“Expectations” in Short+Sweet Sydney, Australia
Jennifer’s play Expectations has been selected for Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney (Australia) 2021, where it will have a live stage production May 21-23, 2021. Jennifer’s play Fridge was produced in Short+Sweet Perth (Western Australia) 2021 and is Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Sydney 2021.
Premiere of “Microwave & Fridge”
Jennifer’s one-act play combining her award-winning ten-minute play Fridge with her ten-minute play Microwave will premiere online with PlayZoomers as part of Summer Festival of Love and Laughter from July 23-24, 2021.
“A Midsummer Night’s Script” a Semifinalist
Jennifer’s A Midsummer Night’s Script is a Semifinalist for the 2021 International Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival.
“Lucy Tries Again” selected for New Works Festival
Jennifer’s play Lucy Tries Again (about Lucille Ball as a teenager) will debut virtually in the Crafton Hills College New Works Festival on May 9, 2021 at 5 PM ET/2 PM PT. Click here for ticket info.
“Fridge” selected for Short+Sweet Perth 2021
Jennifer’s play Fridge has been selected (out of more than 620 international submissions) for production in Short+Sweet Perth 2021 in Western Australia. Fridge will be performed March 20-21, 2021.
“Listening” by PlayZoomers
Jennifer’s play Listening will be produced online by PlayZoomers on February 19,2021 at 7:30 PM EST. The play premiered in Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest where it won an audience-choice award.
“Circumnavigation” in Fast & Furious 2021
Jennifer’s Circumnavigation has been selected for Spokane Stage Left’s Fast & Furious 2021 play festival streaming February 27, 2021.
“Fridge” and “Most Wonderful” selected for Best Ten-Minute Play anthologies
Two new play publications: Jennifer’s Fridge is now published by Smith and Kraus in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Debbie Lamedman; and Jennifer’s Most Wonderful is now published by Applause in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Lawrence Harbison.
“The Bookstore” at NextStage Theater
Jennifer’s play The Bookstore will be part of NextStage Theater Company’s Teen Tuesday show on January 12, 2021.
“Fridge” shortlisted for Short+Sweet Perth 2021
Jennifer’s ten-minute play Fridge is one of 56 scripts out of 620 international submissions currently shortlisted for Short+Sweet Perth 2021.
JUGGLING WITH MR. FIELDS a SWTP Finalist
Jennifer’s full-length play Juggling with Mr. Fields, about W.C. Fields toward the end of his life, is a Finalist in Southwest Theatre Production’s 2020 contest. Her full-length play Paranormal Love is a Semifinalist in the same competition.
“Fridge” and “Expectations” shortlisted for Short+Sweet Dubai 2021
Jennifer’s Expectations and Fridge are Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Dubai Theater Festival 2021. Fridge is also Shortlisted for Short+Sweet Perth 2021.
The Covid Monologues
Jennifer’s monologue In Memory of Maria Mercader honoring journalist and CBS news producer Maria Mercader is currently streaming as part of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble‘s The Covid Monologues celebrating and memorializing lives lost to Covid.
“Invisible” at Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette
Jennifer’s monologue Invisible premieres in Natural Distancing, a play festival by Civic Theater of Greater Lafayette, IN, streaming from October 3-17, 2020. The show will restream in December 2020.
“Most Wonderful” to be published in Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021
Jennifer’s play Most Wonderful has been selected for The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Lawrence Harbison and forthcoming from Applause Theater & Cinema Books. The play premiered in 2019 at OnStage Atlanta.
New performance of “Persephone”
A filmed performance of Jennifer’s ten-minute play Persephone will be part of Spark Creative Works’ Women’s Playwriting Project on March 28, 2021. Persephone received previous productions in CA, IL, MI and UT and is now published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison
“A Midsummer Night’s Script” performed
Caravan Theatre performed Jennifer’s new play A Midsummer Night’s Script on August 31, 2020.
“Playgroup” in Empower Her Voice
Jennifer’s monologue “Playgroup” will be performed as part of Empower Her Voice U.K.’s virtual scratch night on August 29 at 7 PM GMT/2 PM EDT.
“Like Knives” in Brave New World Rep’s Over and Above
Jennifer’s new monologue, “Like Knives,” will be performed by Laura San Giacomo in Over and Above: Women Over 55 Speak, a benefit to support the artists of Brave New World Repertory Theatre in the time of COVID. The show will be performed over Zoom at 7 PM EST on August 26, 2020. Ticket info here.
“Belle” on Writer’s Block Radio Hour
Jennifer’s monologue “Belle, ex-wife of a Beast” was performed by Emily Hageman as part of the Women’s Voices edition of The Writer’s Block Radio Hour out of Glasgow, Scotland on July 8, 2020.
Three plays selected for Caravan Theatre
Three of Jennifer’s plays were selected, performed and recorded by Caravan Theatre U.K.: Expectations and The Great Gaffe on August 3, 2020, and The Mysterious Affair at the Christies on August 10, 2020.
“Expectations” makes Shortlist
Jennifer’s new play Expectations was Shortlisted for Pint-sized Plays 2020. The play has already had three readings in the U.K., including in Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England.
“Fridge” by Theatre Three
Jennifer’s play Fridge was selected for Theatre Three’s new Off-Stage/On-Line Series. Watch the video of Fridge here.
Four Plays in Globe Theatre Fundraiser
Four of Jennifer’s plays are being performed live online at 1 PM EST in Around the Globe in Eighty Plays, a fundraiser by Fractured Time Productions in support of Shakespeare’s Globe: The Bookstore (June 22), Fridge (June 28), The Mysterious Affair at the Christies (June 30) and Expectations (July 2, 2020).
“I’m Not Malala” in Faces of America Revival
Jennifer’s monologue I’m Not Malala will be livestreamed as part of the virtual revival of The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival at The PGE’s YouTube page on June 6, 2020.
“Fridge” an Audience-Choice Winner
Jennifer’s play Fridge won 2nd Place Audience-Choice Award in Kairos Italy Theater’s International Ten-Minute Play Festival on May 18, 2020, and will be performed in Italian at the Lucido Sottile Festival (online) on June 6, 2020. Read more in Broadway World.
CHARLOTTE’S LETTERS Wins Rising Artist Award
Jennifer’s multiple-award-winning full-length play Charlotte’s Letters is also a Winner of the 2020 Rising Artist Playwriting Award. A live reading at Attic Salt Theatre Company has been delayed due to Covid-19 but is currently projected for Spring 2022.
“Fridge” selected for KIT’s 10-Minute Play Festival
Jennifer’s new play Fridge has been selected by Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) for the International Women in Comedy ten-minute play festival. Due to COVID-19, readings will take place virtually on May 18, 2020.
“A Split Second” and “Pre-War” in PLAYS FOR US
Jennifer’s plays A Split Second and Pre-War have been selected for Plays for Us, a series of play readings in collaboration with The Actors Center. Due to COVID-19 the plays will be performed virtually on May 14, 2020.
“Playgroup” at Red Herring Productions
Jennifer’s monologue Playgroup was selected for The Mother-logues and livestreamed on June 29, 2020 by Red Herring Productions in Columbus, OH. Watch the video on YouTube here.
“Theoni V. Aldredge” at The Barrow Group
Jennifer’s monologue play Theoni V. Aldredge, Costume Designer, Speaks has been selected by The Barrow Group for its 20/20 New Visions Festival in NYC. (Postponed due to COVID-19)
“Only Human” at Mystic Vision Players
Jennifer’s play Only Human will be produced by Mystic Vision Players in Linden, NJ as part of #Code Red Faith. (Postponed due to COVID-19)
“Expectations” in Glasgow, Scotland
Jennifer’s new play Expectations will be part of Love and Other Catastrophes by The Rum Diaries Presents in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 27th, 2020.
“Admiral Grace” at 6th Street Playhouse
Jennifer’s play Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits will be produced by 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA, as part of Heroines, Harpies and Harlots: A Woman Speaks from February 28 to March 8, 2020.
“Only Human” selected for St. Paul’s New Short Play Festival
Jennifer’s play Only Human was selected for St. Paul’s Arts Council’s 3rd Annual Short New Play Festival in New Albany, IN, on Feburary 9, 2020.
“Moths” on Spokane Public Radio
Jennifer’s widely reprinted poem “Moths,” originally published in Poetry and included in her book White, was recently featured on Spokane Public Radio’s Poetry Moment.
“I’m Not Malala” by The PlayGround Experiment
Jennifer’s monologue I’m Not Malala was selected for The PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival and will be performed at New York City’s Kraine Theater on November 18, 2019.
“Only Human” in NYC
Jennifer’s monologue play Only Human will have a reading on October 1st, 2019 at St. John’s Lutheran in New York City as part of Code Red Playwrights in support of gun control.
“Tomorrow or Next Year” published
Jennifer’s play “Tomorrow or Next Year” is at Feels Blind Literary.
“Persephone” at The Hive Collaborative
Jennifer’s play Persephone will be produced and live-streamed as part of by The Ten Show at The Hive Collaborative in Provo, UT, on October 26, 2019. Viewers can watch at The Hive Channel or The Hive Collaborative’s Facebook page.
“Most Wonderful” at OnStage Atlanta
Jennifer’s holiday play Most Wonderful premieres in OnStage Atlanta‘s Merry Little Holiday Shorts, running December 11-21, 2019.
PARANORMAL LOVE Runner-Up for Pandora’s Box
Jennifer’s award-winning full-length play Paranormal Love is one of five Honorable Mentions/runners-up for the 2019 Pandora’s Box New Works Festival.
Four new plays produced in London
Four short plays by Jennifer–The Gorilla, Bars, Cage and Circumnavigation–will premiere in Cage: Short Animal Plays by Primal Theatre at Barons Court Theatre, London, UK, from 9/3-8, 2019.
“New Kitten” in Columbus, OH
New Kitten (which premiered in Gi60’s US Live Edition in 2019) will be produced in O.G. Production’s Theatre Tapas in Columbus, OH, in September 2019.
“The Mysterious Affair at the Christies” in London
Jennifer’s play The Mysterious Affair at the Christies will be produced in London by Saw It Here First Productions at Theatro Technis on March 8, 2020. Ticket sales help support The Moira Fund.
3 poems in Cultural Weekly
Jennifer is the featured poet at Cultural Weekly with three poems from her second book, Exclusions & Limitations, published in 2018 by Plume Editions/MadHat Press.
“Persephone” at Lowell Arts Theater
Jennifer’s play Persephone was selected for production in Playbytes by Playwrights “Lost and Found” at Lowell Arts Theater from November 1-9, 2019. Persephone has also been selected for The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, forthcoming from Applause Books.
“Moths” on BBC Radio 4
Jennifer’s poem “Moths” from her award-winning book White is featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of “Four Seasons: Summer.” The poem is read by Juliet Stevenson. (June 2019)
“Listening” at Weathervane Playhouse
Jennifer’s play Listening was selected for Weathervane Playhouse’s 2019 8×10 Theatrefest in Akron, OH. The play premiered in July 2019 and won 3rd Place Audience-Choice Award.
“New Kitten” wins 3-Minute Play Contest
New Kitten is a winner of ICWP’s (International Center for Women Playwrights’) April 2019 3-Minute Play Contest, judged by Kristen Osborn.
“Out” and “New Kitten” selected for Gi60
Two plays by Jennifer will be produced by Gi60: The International One-Minute Theatre Festival. Out will premiere in May 2019 at Leeds Theatre in the UK, while New Kitten premieres at Brooklyn College in NYC in June. (An expanded version of “New Kitten” won ICWP’s 3-Minute Play Contest in 2019).
“Only Human” in Illinois and elsewhere
Only Human has been selected for The Factory Theatre at Greenville University’s New Plays Festival in April 2019. The play will also have readings at theaters around the country as part of Code Red Playwrights in support of gun control, including at Phoenix Theatre in Minneapolis (March 2019), Lakewood Playhouse in Washington (May 2019), Focal Theatre Lab in Iowa (June 2019) and St. John Lutheran Church in NYC (October 2019).
ELLERY selected by The Bechdel Group
Jennifer’s full-length play Ellery has been selected by The Bechdel Group for a reading and workshop at The Tank in NYC on April 1st, 2019. A monologue from Ellery appears in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017 (Smith and Kraus).
Premiere of “Pre-War”
“Pre-War” has been selected for production in Stage It’s 2019 Ten-Minute Play Festival and will premiere in Bonita Springs, FL, in April 2019. The play has also been awarded publication in Stage It 3: Twenty 10-Minute Plays. ”
“Persephone” in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays
Persephone has been published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019, edited by Lawrence Harbison and available from Applause Theatre & Cinema Books.
Premiere of “Emily’s Room”
Jennifer’s play “Emily’s Room” will have its world premiere at Rover Dramawerks in Plano, TX, in its 365 Women a Year Festival March-April 2019.
Premiere of “Domestic Service”
Jennifer’s play “Domestic Service” will be produced by White Mouse Theatre Productions at Florida State University in Tallahassee in November 2019.
Charlotte’s Letters an AFF Second Rounder
Charlotte’s Letters was named a Second Rounder in the 2018 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. The play also won the 2018 Henley Rose Award and the 2017 NEWvember Festival Dublin competition, among other awards.
“Two Birds Mating in a Rhododendron Bush” at Verse Daily
Jennifer is the featured poet on the July 12th edition of Verse Daily with this poem from her new (2nd) book, Exclusions & Limitations, available from Plume Editions in conjunction with MadHat Press.
“Steer Flees Slaughter and Is Last Seen Going Thataway” on Poetry Daily
Jennifer is the featured poet on the May 20th, 2018 edition of Poetry Daily with this poem from her new book, Exclusions & Limitations. Another of the book’s poems, “How to Clean Practically Anything,” appeared previously on Poetry Daily.
“Persephone” wins Heartland Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Contest
Jennifer’s play “Persephone” is one of six winners of Heartland Theatre Company‘s 2018 10-Minute Play Festival competition and will premiere at Heartland Theatre in June 2019.
Charlotte’s Letters wins Henley Rose Award
Jennifer’s full-length play Charlotte‘s Letters has won 1st Place in the Henley Rose Playwrights Competition for Women. A staged reading will be performed in Knoxville, TN on May 13th, 2018, followed by a Q&A with Jennifer.
Jennifer’s 2nd poetry book published
Jennifer’s new collection of poetry, Exclusions & Limitations, is now out from Plume Editions in conjunction with MadHat Press. Poems within have won awards and been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and appeared originally in Poetry, The New Republic, Southwest Review, Plume, Poetry Daily and many other prominent places. Read Grace Cavalieri’s review in Washington Independent Review of Books.
Premiere of “Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits”
Jennifer’s short play “Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits” (about former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and computer pioneer Grace Hopper) will premiere in March 2018 at Rover Dramawerks in Plano, TX as part of the theater’s 365 Women a Year new play festival.
Charlotte’s Letters selected for NEWvember Festival Dublin
Charlotte’s Letters is one of six full-length plays selected for the NEWvember New Plays Festival in Dublin, Ireland. A staged reading will be performed in Dublin on November 16, 2017. Read about it in Broadway World here.
Premiere of “The Mysterious Affair at the Christies”
Jennifer’s short play “The Mysterious Affair at the Christies” (about novelist Agatha Christie) will premiere at Rover Dramawerks in Plano, TX in April 2017. Read about it in Broadway World here.
“Man Keeps Eighty Sheep In His House, Authorities Say” in The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5
The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5 is edited by Daniel Lawless and will be published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in February 2017. This poem by Jennifer is also included in her second poetry book Exclusions & Limitations, due out from Plume Editions/MadHat Press in 2018.
“First Day in Trade” selected for The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017
Jennifer’s play “First Day in Trade” (about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) premiered at Rover Dramawerks and will be published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017, edited by Lawrence Harbison and due out from Smith and Kraus in December 2017.
Ellery selected for The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017
A monologue from Jennifer’s full-length play Ellery will be published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017, edited by Lawrence Harbison and due out from Smith and Kraus.